Conference

2023

  1. DSN
    PT-Guard: Integrity-Protected Page Tables to Defend Against Breakthrough Rowhammer Attacks
    Anish Saxena, Gururaj Saileshwar, Jonas Juffinger, Andreas Kogler, Daniel Gruss, and Moinuddin Qureshi
    In 53rd Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN) 2023
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  2. S&P
    Practical Timing Side-Channel Attacks on Memory Compression
    Martin Schwarzl, Pietro Borrello, Gururaj Saileshwar, Hanna Müller, Michael Schwarz, and Daniel Gruss
    In 44th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P) 2023
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  3. S&P
    SQUIP: Exploiting the Scheduler Queue Contention Side Channel
    Stefan Gast, Jonas Juffinger, Martin Schwarzl, Gururaj Saileshwar, Andreas Kogler, Simone Franza, Markus Kostl, and Daniel Gruss
    In 44th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P) 2023
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  4. HPCA
    Scalable and Secure Row-Swap: Efficient and Safe Row Hammer Mitigation in Memory Systems
    Jeonghyun Woo, Gururaj Saileshwar, and Prashant J Nair
    In 29th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA) 2023
    HPCA’23 Best Paper Award
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2022

  1. MICRO
    AQUA: Scalable Rowhammer Mitigation by Quarantining Aggressor Rows at Runtime
    Anish Saxena, Gururaj Saileshwar, Prashant Nair, and Moinuddin Qureshi
    In 55th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO) 2022
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  2. ISCA
    Hydra: Enabling Low-Overhead Mitigation of Row-Hammer at Ultra-Low Thresholds via Hybrid Tracking
    Moinuddin Qureshi, Aditya Rohan, Gururaj Saileshwar, and Prashant Nair
    In 49th International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) 2022
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  3. DSN-S
    On the Scalability of HeapCheck
    Rick Boivie, Gururaj Saileshwar, Tong Chen, Benjamin Segal, and Alper Buyuktosunoglu
    In 52nd IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks-Supplement Vol.(DSN-S) 2022
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  4. ASPLOS
    Randomized Row Swap: Mitigating Rowhammer Attacks by Breaking Spatial Correlation Between Aggressors and Victims
    Gururaj Saileshwar, Bolin Wang, Moinuddin Qureshi, and Prashant Nair
    In 27th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS) 2022
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2021

  1. CCS
    Hardware Support to Improve Fuzzing Performance and Precision
    Ren Ding, Yonghae Kim, Fan Sang, Wen Xu, Gururaj Saileshwar, and Taesoo Kim
    In 28th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) 2021
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  2. SEED
    Bespoke Cache Enclaves: Fine-Grained and Scalable Isolation from Cache Side-Channels via Flexible Set-Partitioning
    Gururaj Saileshwar, Sanjay Kariyappa, and Moinuddin Qureshi
    In IEEE International Symposium on Secure and Private Execution Environment Design (SEED) 2021
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  3. SEC
    MIRAGE: Mitigating Conflict-Based Cache Attacks with a Practical Fully-Associative Design
    Gururaj Saileshwar, and Moinuddin Qureshi
    In 30th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security) 2021
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  4. DSN-S
    Hardware Support for Low-Cost Memory Safety
    Rick Boivie*, Gururaj Saileshwar*, Tong Chen, Benjamin Segal, and Alper Buyuktosunoglu
    In 51st IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks-Supplement Vol.(DSN-S) 2021
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  5. ASPLOS
    Streamline: A Fast, Flushless Cache Covert-channel Attack by Enabling Asynchronous Collusion
    Gururaj Saileshwar, Christopher W Fletcher, and Moinuddin Qureshi
    In 26th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS) 2021
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2019

  1. MICRO
    Cleanupspec: An "Undo" Approach to Safe Speculation
    Gururaj Saileshwar, and Moinuddin K Qureshi
    In 52nd ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO) 2019
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2018

  1. MICRO
    Morphable Counters: Enabling Compact Integrity Trees for Low-Overhead Secure Memories
    Gururaj Saileshwar, Prashant J Nair, Prakash Ramrakhyani, Wendy Elsasser, Jose A Joao, and Moinuddin K Qureshi
    In 51st ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO) 2018
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  2. HPCA
    Synergy: Rethinking Secure-memory Design for Error-Correcting Memories
    Gururaj Saileshwar, Prashant J Nair, Prakash Ramrakhyani, Wendy Elsasser, and Moinuddin K Qureshi
    In 24th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA) 2018
    Honorable Mention at IEEE MICRO’s Top Picks 2019
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2011

  1. ISOCC
    CMOS Low-noise Signal Conditioning with a Novel Differential “Resistance to Frequency” Converter for Resistive Sensor Applications
    Priyanka Kabara, Sanket Thakur, Gururaj Saileshwar, Maryam S Baghini, and Dinesh K Sharma
    In 8th IEEE International SoC Design Conference (ISOCC) 2011
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Journal

2023

  1. CAL
    The Mirage of Breaking MIRAGE: Analyzing the modeling pitfalls in emerging “attacks” on MIRAGE
    Gururaj Saileshwar, and Moinuddin Qureshi
    In IEEE Computer Architecture Letters (CAL) 2023
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  2. CAL
    Mitigating Timing-Based NoC Side-Channel Attacks With LLC Remapping
    Anurag Kar, Xueyang Liu, Yonghae Kim, Gururaj Saileshwar, Hyesoon Kim, and Tushar Krishna
    In IEEE Computer Architecture Letters (CAL) 2023
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2022

  1. TACO
    HeapCheck: Low-Cost Hardware-Support for Memory-Safety
    Gururaj Saileshwar, Rick Boivie, Tong Chen, Benjamin Segal, and Alper Buyuktosunoglu
    In ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO) 2022
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Workshop

2021

  1. WCAE
    Mentoring Opportunities in Computer Architecture: Analyzing the Past to Develop the Future
    Elba Garza, Gururaj Saileshwar, Udit Gupta, Tianyi Liu, Abdulrahman Mahmoud, Saugata Ghose, and Joel Emer
    In 21st Workshop on Computer Architecture Education (WCAE) held in conjunction with ISCA 2021
    Received Highest Reviewer Scores in the Workshop
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Technical Reports

2021

  1. Arxiv
    Practical Timing Side Channel Attacks on Memory Compression
    Martin Schwarzl, Pietro Borrello, Gururaj Saileshwar, Hanna Müller, Michael Schwarz, and Daniel Gruss
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.08404 2021
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2019

  1. Arxiv
    Lookout for Zombies: Mitigating Flush+Reload Attack on Shared Caches by Monitoring Invalidated Lines
    Gururaj Saileshwar, and Moinuddin K Qureshi
    arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.02362 2019
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Patents

2021

  1. Hybrid Mitigation of Speculation Based Attacks Based on Program Behavior
    Gururaj Saileshwar, and Muntaquim Chowdhury
    US Patent App. 16/681,642 2021
  2. Speculative Information Flow Tracking
    Gururaj Saileshwar, and Muntaquim Chowdhury
    US Patent App. 16/669,027 2021

2020

  1. Memory Organization for Security and Reliability
    Gururaj Saileshwar, Prakash S Ramrakhyani, and Wendy Elsasser
    US Patent 10,540,297 2020